Crawley's Michael Alldis is ready to take on the world.

The 33-year-old has been pencilled in for a crack at a world title, taking on Simon Ramoni for the IBO crown on September 14.

But first Alldis must successfully defend his British super-bantamweight title against Patrick Mullings at Wembley Conference Centre tonight.

A world title shot is not the only prize up for grabs for Alldis. Victory against his old rival Mullings would constitute a third defence of his British crown and would therefore allow the Crawley fighter to win the Lonsdale belt outright.

Standing in the way is Mullings, the 31-year-old from Harrow who has twice met Alldis before.

Mullings beat Alldis to land the ABA bantamweight title in 1992 but Alldis got his revenge seven years later, defeating Mullings at Bethnal Green to become British super-bantamweight champion.

There is no love lost between the pair and Alldis said: "Mullings has been a thorn in my side and now it is time I got rid of this thorn once and for all.

"I have been pencilled in for September 14 for an IBO title fight against Ramoni. But I am not thinking about that at the moment. My thoughts are on Mullings.

"I want to finish him in style and I will think about other things after that. I know what is there but I have to put that to the back of my mind at the moment."

The Wembley bill also features Billy Schwer making a first defence of his IBO light-welterweight title against Argentina's Pablo Sarmiento, while Nottingham's Nicky Booth fights for the vacant IBO bantamweight title against Colombian Jose Sanjuanelo.

But there will be strong support in both camps for the Alldis-Mullings showdown and Alldis is confident of victory.

He said: "Everyone I have fought twice throughout my career I have stopped them the second time. It is another goal I want to keep."